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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.6 IDE 19
To: aia21@cus.cam.ac.uk (Anton Altaparmakov)
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 19:39:06 +0000 (GMT)
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> The idea behind native DFT is to be able to perform drive diagnostics from
> within the OS without rebooting with a DOS disk and tying up the system
> for hours during the checks. The advantages of this combined with IDE/SCSI
> hot swap are strikingly obvious...

So providing we have a properly generic "issue IDE command from user space"
do we need any more kernel magic for this ?
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